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Offline SteveBailey

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« Reply #75 on: November 08, 2007, 10:35:28 AM »
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Where as you are entitled to your opinion this is the same rhetoric prior to the split arena's.  Where I personally had absolutely no problem finding a fight back then or now and we have less players today, in each LW right now....funny that :huh




The hordes continue... they weren't as bad when we had one arena w/ mid sized/small maps.... the original pizza map.. what a disaster.  People flying off peak hours are going to have a hard time finding fights.  This was a fact on big maps before, I don't understand how this has magically changed. Can you explain this to me?

I understand people grew tired of seeing the same map every night, although I could care less what map is on as long as there is action to be found, but big maps are not the answer.....unless you are going to combine the two LWA's. This MAY reduce the problem but HTC has stated decisively that the 2 LWA's are here to stay.

I know I've gone from looking for a good fight to merely horde busting.  It can be fun and challenging but every once in a while it would be nice to find a fairly even fight.

I guess this is a case of it being someone else's turn to be happy although I do not believe that anyone but a very vocal minority actually prefers big maps. I believe people will take a gander at big maps simply because they are sick of the old small ones.

I am beginning to think I was on the wrong map.  For instance, baldeagl is claiming there was a big bish-rook furball.  This simply wasn't the case on the map I was on.  The rooks were hording with a sprinkling of bish, me included, trying to defend. When the horde met stiff resistance, it evaporated and popped up where there were no defenders... rinse and repeat.

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« Reply #76 on: November 08, 2007, 10:46:20 AM »
you must have been in orange, that was my night also.

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« Reply #77 on: November 08, 2007, 11:08:48 AM »
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Aw man, i'm hearing all of you old bats ( and some new ) talking about how good the big maps are. I haven't even seen it yet sadly since i can't get back on for a while.:(



It is a very interesting map as you've read and there are some very good characteristics incorporated into it like the color of the sky and setting sun. I was  kid of hoping the water might have been a different shade but finding a miniature golf course or something off one of the bases was fun. Since I only flew last night for a few hours I was not able to take it all in just yet. One of the other things I noticed was that the map is SO LARGE that when asking for help or alerting a distress for a base, using grid numbers will be easier than calling it by name.

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« Reply #78 on: November 08, 2007, 11:20:32 AM »
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you must have been in orange, that was my night also.


Same here.
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« Reply #79 on: November 08, 2007, 11:28:41 AM »
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Aw man, i'm hearing all of you old bats ( and some new ) talking about how good the big maps are. I haven't even seen it yet sadly since i can't get back on for a while.:(


As posted earlier, can someone mind posting a pic of the big map for me to see? greatly Appreciated please :p


Here you go.  Be careful what you wish [/IMG]

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« Reply #80 on: November 08, 2007, 11:43:26 AM »
WOOT BIG MAPS ARE BACK! :D  Big ol buff raid missions will be in process when i return:)

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« Reply #81 on: November 08, 2007, 11:48:41 AM »
The one ting you'll notice when looking at the map, look at the number of small airfields and their locations.

And thanks for posting that, we now know where your CVs are.
I am aslo assuming that the Northern country is teh Bish tath are pushed back to the uncapturables?
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« Reply #82 on: November 08, 2007, 11:50:08 AM »
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The one ting you'll notice when looking at the map, look at the number of small airfields and their locations.


OK... there are lots of them and they are everywhere.  The point?
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« Reply #83 on: November 08, 2007, 11:56:37 AM »
I started playing last year this time, the maps i remember were the mid size or at least 25% smaller than that one. About the same size as the TT island in the middle and the new one released a month ago, I like the size of those. I logged on last night and all i could think was holy crap this is huge.

Is there a site you can see all the maps old and new? I've looked with no luck.
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« Reply #84 on: November 08, 2007, 12:01:54 PM »
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OK... there are lots of them and they are everywhere.  The point?


Exactly, there are not alot of Medium/Large airfields, and the one's that are there are in the rear.

Small airfield make for more movement of the front lines.  Hence teh tons of small airfields along the front lines.

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« Reply #85 on: November 08, 2007, 12:12:21 PM »
thank you very much hitech and gang....i always loved this map!
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« Reply #86 on: November 08, 2007, 12:23:39 PM »
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« Reply #87 on: November 08, 2007, 12:39:06 PM »
I like the big map.  Seems that there is something for everyone.  But why have such a big map and two arenas?  Seems to me all LW could easily fit into one arena on a map this size.

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« Reply #88 on: November 08, 2007, 02:05:24 PM »
I will have to see what happens, but so far I like it.  

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« Reply #89 on: November 08, 2007, 02:11:36 PM »
i havent logged on to play the map yet but i have played this map in the past and when it first came out it was a blast. as i am reading this post it seems it still is a blast:aok
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